Monday, March 31, 2014

The Sandman: Overture #2 - A Review

The Sandman: Overture #2 continues neatly from where the first issue ended some many months ago, with Dream of the Endless finding himself. Or its selves, since many of them are female or beyond the normal definitions of gender. Regardless, ill omens have summoned forth these Dreams and it will fall to them to deal with a looming disaster that threatens all reality.

Those who enjoyed Neil Gaiman's previous work on The Sandman will find more of the same here. Those who have not would do well to either track down a copy of Preludes and Nocturnes to catch-up with the rest of us or have themselves committed to some manner of psychiatric hospital. I say this because anyone who has read The Sandman and not enjoyed it needs to be committed immediately because they are clearly insane and have no place in polite society.

The same could be said of the artwork of J.H. Williams III. I was no great fan of the Batwoman book but I cannot deny the beauty of Williams' artwork. There is a majesty and power to every page of this issue that seems a perfect match for Gaiman's writing style. The final presentation combined is gorgeous. Really, the only thing about this book that is bad is the wait-time between issues.